Do you or someone you
know have a family or personal "moment in time" that you wish
could be remembered in a 3-dimensional model? A family cabin by the lake?;
a favorite fishing spot?; Grandmother's kitchen at canning time on the
farm? Have you got pictures? Are you a model railroader with an unfulfilled
vision for a track-side scene? Are you a racer with memories of a hard
faught battle at the local oval, or at the SCCA run-offs at Mid-Ohio?
At Moments In Time Exhibits, although our primary focus is the design
and creation of dynamic, historically accurate scale dioramas depicting
particular "moments in time" for museums and visitors' centers,
we are happy to contemplate with you the possibility of creating such
a personally important "moment in YOUR time" for you and yours.

Below
we have gathered for you a gallery of images highlighting different personal
collector projects.

"Itchington Junction - 1840", an imaginary junction of two
British canals, including a lock, a "bridge-hole", two horse-drawn
narrow boats and a water's edge pub, in the time before the railroads
were developed

Created as a celebration in 1/160th scale of a family canal boat excursion
in middle Briton, the entire scene (above) lives upon a 24" by 36"
base. The figures are 3/8th inch tall, and the buildings are cut-outs
from souvenir post cards found during the excursion. The plan is to build
the scene into a glass-topped coffee table.

Granny at 85 liked to tell the story of how her tan '32 Ford would stall
on the Inter-Urban tracks after her right turn off of Southeastern Avenue
onto Thompson Road almost every afternoonon her way home from work. The
guys from the gas station across the Avenue would all run to her aid and
push her over the tracks before the fast and frequent south-side Indianapolis
Inter-Urbane trolley came along. Some one in the family decided it would
be fun to provide her with some visual aids to the story telling.

This piece was created as the
fourth and final development in a demonstration of some of our modeling
techniques for a meeting of the Oregon Museum Assoc. The other three showed
other stages of the layering process which results in the rich texture of
our three-dimensional "paintings". Joanne hand-makes these trees,
and sifts and sorts the layers of sand and gravel she chooses from her pallet
of ground materials. She also selects the "shrubs" and grasses
from her collection of mosses, lichen and other organic details, all treated
to avoid the inclusion of any insect life into a scene.